The reformer's vision was, by the standards of her day, radical. She proposed not merely to soften the existing system but to return it to first principles, recovering ideals her contemporaries had largely forgotten.
As used in the text, what does the word "radical" most nearly mean?
- A
extremely violent
- B
trendy
- Ccheck_circle
going to the root
- D
mathematical
Explanation
She wants to return the system to "first principles" — the etymological root sense of "radical," not the political-violence, slang, or math senses.